Mountain Phoenix
A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colourful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally "sun-city" in Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into people.
After close to 4month`s of planning i can proudly say that i am ready to start my first build log of my Project that i call Mountain Phoenix the reason of that name you ask? Well I have become more aware of colour`s and purple have become one of the colours that have caught my eye and since the build have become a high end build with fully integrated water cooling Dragon sounds like a reflection of the hardware.
Been into computers for almost 8 years and really love it since I have a lot of spare time the computer is a trust worthy mate to have not sure I would still be alive if it wouldn’t have been for my pc so I figured that my old dell I getting to slow and weak for the newer games its almost 8years by now so need something new, did start a few weeks before summer vacation with research since I first was after ready build system I could just start op but after checking almost every large company out there I found out that the tax in Norway is ridiculous 25% tax on everything that is brought into the country that’s with shipping fees and some gods even have an extra 13% on top of that so I realized it was to expensive to buy and ship so I decided so build on one my own.
The Project as a whole have grown in time, but at the same time been incredible fun to research each part and changing the set up over time from the first idea that hit me in late July, To a finished project with everything set up in the different shops,
Its currently a large list of parts that have come and gone the past few months, Its currently spread over 7 Internet shops, all the way from the United States back to the locally placed ones
After almost 4month`s of research and scrapping my original plans a few times (It`s incredible how indecisive I can be sometimes) I came up with the purple dragon and chose purple as my theme, but its ridiculously hard to find gadgets to match the theme its been only slewing and case light`s I have been able to dig up so will do my best to make a clean build, its my first time building a computer also so hope it will be a positive experience
During the past November-December it have become clear that I need a home server also, been so much fun finding hardware for it and read up and learn what I did not know from before.
Brace yourself here comes the Hardware as it stands now 24.12.2010
Hardware!
SAMSUNG DVD±R/RW/RAM DL 22X SATA
CORSAIR AIRFLOW FAN V2 FOR DOMINATOR DDR3
SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F3 1TB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB
LITEON IHOS104 BLU-RAY READER 4X SATA BLACK
OCZ VERTEX 2 2.5" 60GB SSD x2 In RAID,0
ASUS Xonar Essence STX - lydkort
CORSAIR 6GB DDR3 INTEL I7 DOMINATOR GT 2000MHZ CL8 (3X2GB)
CORSAIR AX 1200W PROFESSIONAL SERIES MODULAR PSU
INTEL CORE I7 950 3.06GHZ 8MB
ASUS RAMPAGE III EXTREME X58 S-1366 ATX
ASUS GEFORCE GTX 580 1536MB x2 in SLI
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium NO OEM, 64bit
Arctic Silver ArtiClean 1& 2, 2x30
Arctic Silver ArtiClean 1& 2, 2x30
Antistatic Armchain 6 feet
Ordering type Ascention- CYO with custom paint and Acrylic window laser Etching 2 window`s
already have full slewing kit from MDPC-X for for all the cables
and water cooling parts from Germany minus T-Virus from US (ice Blue)
chase lightings from mountain mods (strong Purple)
Ordering type Ascention- CYO with custom paint and Acrylic window laser Etching 2 window`s
already have full slewing kit from MDPC-X for for all the cables
and water cooling parts from Germany minus T-Virus from US (ice Blue)
chase lightings from mountain mods (strong Purple)
The water cooling was way harder to get together since I had no experience what so ever with it from before but with some very good help I managed to get all I needed
Water Cooling list
Koolance VID-NX580 (GeForce GTX 580) X2
XSPC RS360 BLACK Triple Radiator X4
screw DIN 7985 M4 x 30 cross flat zinc coated X12
Laing D5-Pump 12V D5-Vario 1/2 tubing connector
Xigmatek XLF-F1253 ( 120x120x25mm) X16
13mm (1/2") sealing plug – knurled
19/13mm G1/4" compression fittings set 10x2
Phobya Y-cable 3Pin Molex to 4x 3Pin x3
Phobya Y-Cable 3Pin Molex to 6x 3Pin Molex
19/13mm compression fitting 45° revolvable G1/4 - knurled - silver nicke x6
Koolance SLI VID variable connection nipple G1/4" - 1 Slot X2
EK Water Blocks EK-Supreme HF Full Nickel universal (775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3/939/XEON)
Scythe Kaze Master 5.25" 6way fan controller Black
Koolance MB-ASR3E (ASUS Rampage III Extreme)
Mayhems Biocide 5ml
Masterkleer tubing PVC 19/13mm (1/2"ID) UV-active white 10m
That`s all the ordered parts which have to fit into the chase lol i live in Norway so getting all the hardware will take time, patience
Update as of 06.01.2011
Update as of 06.01.2011
Most of the Parts have now been ordered as of 04.01.2011 Already got the cable sleewing from MDP-X (thanks nils) The Case from Mountain Mods are in line and are awaiting the custom changes sometime the next 2day`s
Most of the watercooling parts are on the way except from the full cover water blocks for Motherboard and the Compression fittings are also on hold, waiting on them to get more from the manufacturer
The reservoir have been ordered at Christmas week so guessing it will arrive in 2-3weeks
The Screens that I will buy with the build and set up is 3x DELL Ultra sharp 2410, It will be awesome
The server that I talked about longer up in the post will be used for
FTP fire sharing, Web hosting in-house, HD media streaming(music and video), storage, backup for 4Pc`s, blue ray 1080p encoding and Torrent and be able to handle up to 8 hard drives
It will be running Linux Home Server with Xbuntu GUI (XFS)
Hardware will be
DIMM DDR3 HYPERX 2GB 1333MHZ DDR3 NON-ECC CL9 (1X2GB) x2
SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F4 320GB SATA/300 7200RPM 16MB OS Drive
AMD Athlon II X2 260 / 3.2 GHz prosessor
ASUS M4A785T-M 785G AM3 M-ATX
SAMSUNG ECOGREEN F4 2TB 5400RPM SATA/300 32MB (I have not currently decided on Hard drives yet. Its eater 2 or 3Terabyte but will be up to 8 drives in the server Rack, so up to 16-24TB RAW space in RAID5 it will be someplace around 13.1TB-18.6TB free space
I&S rackkabinett EYE4808BK, 4U
Corsair strømforsyning, VX450W
HDD Hot-Swap kabinett Adapter
New parts
Opened up the packs i have gotten so far to take some pictures. and i am not to happy with what i found.
One of the GTX580blocks are got burn marks and got greasy finger marks on it
2 of the rads have damage to the black finish and one even seem to have gotten some corrosion on the end:facepalm:
some pictures, its so hard to get decent lighting in my appartment
Quick Disconnects
Orange on/off plug
you can see some of the damage here
cant wait to get the case, will be a huge beast:lol:
Just recived some more parts 07.01.2011
Some cable slewing, a molex pin remover and some other new tools 06.01.2011
The Custom Reservoir is here
T-Virus Purple
still waiting on the chase:)
The case just arrived today! i had to stop and think how i would get the large pack into the living room to be opened lol. ITS HUUUGE! i knew it would be large but omg:lol::rofl:
